How to format your references using the Research Involvement and Engagement citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Research Involvement and Engagement. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

1. Halzen F. Neutrino astrophysics experiments beneath the sea and ice. Science. 2007;315:66–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Chou I-H, Chouard T. Neuropsychiatric disease. Nature. 2008;455:889.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kurland CG, Collins LJ, Penny D. Genomics and the irreducible nature of eukaryote cells. Science. 2006;312:1011–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hof B, van Doorne CWH, Westerweel J, Nieuwstadt FTM, Faisst H, Eckhardt B, et al. Experimental observation of nonlinear traveling waves in turbulent pipe flow. Science. 2004;305:1594–8.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

1. Tripathi N, Singh RS, Hills CD. Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Luo L, editor. Heat and Mass Transfer Intensification and Shape Optimization: A Multi-scale Approach. London: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Segredo E, Segura C, León C. On the Comparison of Parallel Island-Based Models for the Multiobjectivised Antenna Positioning Problem. In: König A, Dengel A, Hinkelmann K, Kise K, Howlett RJ, Jain LC, editors. Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 32–41.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Research Involvement and Engagement.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. The US Set To Miss Its 2025 Carbon-Cutting Goals – But Only Just. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

1. Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: FAA Management Practices for Technical Training Mostly Effective; Further Actions Could Enhance Results. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Sep. Report No.: GAO-05-728.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Cross A. Tinkering in k-12: an exploratory mixed methods study of makerspaces in schools as an application of constructivist learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2017.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

1. Berkman S. Mets’ Matz Needs Elbow Surgery in Another Blow to the Rotation. New York Times. 2017 Aug 21;B10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Research Involvement and Engagement
Abbreviation	Res. Involv. Engagem.
ISSN (online)	2056-7529
Scope